The Battle of Jinzhou went exceptionally smoothly, and the People's Army suppressed and destroyed it first with an absolutely superior heavy artillery cluster and superior air force. From the airfield to the artillery positions, from the fortifications to the personnel, the army suffered heavy losses at the very beginning of the battle.

Because Jinzhou had considerable accumulation before the start of the battle, coupled with the good traffic capacity of the Beijing-Jinzhou section of the railway, this Jinzhou campaign, which took only two months to prepare, achieved the results of the major battle in a short period of time.

The front-line troops of nearly two divisions of the army were surrounded by the four main divisions that followed the heavily armored brigade through the defensive line, and nearly 100,000 regiments of the Old Northeast Army that attacked from the front.

After a period of pursuit, the heavily armored brigade also had a lot of problems, so it was ordered to turn back and participate in the division and encirclement of the army.

As a result, with the help of this heavily armored brigade, the encircled Yue army was once again treated like bad luck, and the Yue army of more than 50,000 people in the two divisions was interspersed again and again by the heavy armored brigade with infantry units, and the final result was that the two divisions were cut into pieces of tofu and divided into many parts.

Faced with the encirclement of more than 100,000 [***] troops, a small group of troops began to surrender in formation.

After all, compared with the Jinjing battlefield and the early stage of the Jinzhou Campaign, the fierce and fearless army of the Yue army had a little less fighting spirit.

Because, in the early days of the Jinzhou Campaign after the 918 Incident and the early days of the Battle of Jinjing, the Yue army from top to bottom despised the [***] team and had a kind of winning mentality against the [***] team. Because, at this time, even if you die in battle, you can still get victory.

However, when the battle progressed to the Second Battle of Jinzhou, it was different.

First, the 100,000 troops were annihilated in the Battle of Jinjing, then they did not capture Jinzhou for more than a year, and then they were covered by large-scale artillery firepower, although the troops on these defensive lines did not necessarily suffer heavy losses, and some did not even suffer artillery bombardment, after all, they were not on the main breakthrough section of the People's Army, but the canopy of defeat fell from the sky and covered everyone's heads.

If you die and can be exchanged for victory, then, perhaps, gritting your teeth and thinking in your heart about the cherry blossoms of the book, the emperor, his parents, his wife and children, and the army can also launch a board charge.

However, if death cannot be exchanged for victory, but only the result of broken jade, then this task of broken jade may have to be handed over to some officers to do, and not all ordinary soldiers are determined to die in battle.

During the three-day siege period, the army ran out of food and water, drank water from the tunnel, and was able to hold on at first, but when they were really hungry and thirsty and hungry and couldn't stand it, they found that something had fallen from the sky.

"On the third day, when everyone, including the squadron leader, was so hungry that their vision was blurred, the Chinese dropped rice balls, water, and letters of persuasion with planes, and from that moment on, we could no longer restrain the troops."

This is a note written by a prisoner of war in a prisoner of war camp. It was also on the third day that the KPA Air Force dropped tens of thousands of pieces of paper persuading them to surrender and told them to lay down their weapons and attack them.

After all, they occupied a long trench and tunnel fortification, and the KPA did not want to dig gophers and drill trenches to clean up these debris, and wanted these devils to taste the feeling of being cornered, so they gave them hope - rice balls while dropping a letter of persuasion to surrender.

"In order to set an example for the Yue army on the next battlefield in the northeast, and to let Yue himself put down his dirty head and surrender, Major General Chen Jun and I agreed that we should persuade the Yue army to surrender. Coincidentally, as soon as this application for a temporary change in the battle plan arrived at the military headquarters, it actually received a handwritten instruction from Chairman Zhang......

Zhang Xueliang said this when facing the news media as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Theater.

Next, the People's Army quickly advanced and drove the army from Jinzhou all the way to Shenyang.

Although Shenyang is not a battleground for soldiers throughout the ages, in the eyes of Yue, it is more important than anything else.

Not for anything else, just open the map to see, Shenyang is located in the south of the entire Northeast region, the original geographical location is not too surprising, but it is only about 170 kilometers away from North Korea, it is a major town between North Korea and the great Northeast, here is lost, the Chinese [***] team can put aside other places in the Northeast, and choose the army to break into the border between China and North Korea, completely cut off the back road of the army, and slowly pack up the entire Northeast Army into the urn. This is also why, when the army invaded the northeast, it had to take Shenyang no matter what.

Due to Shenyang's extremely important strategic location, the dying and struggling Yue army continued to draw troops from various parts of the northeast, such as Changchun, Harbin, and Dalian to support Shenyang, and even landed four divisions and regiments urgently drawn from China from the direction of North Korea, including the original troops, and the entire Shenyang Theater gathered a huge strength of nine divisions and regiments, nearly 200,000 troops, which was already the largest force mobilized to the Shenyang Theater in a short period of time in the country.

Regarding the development of the war, Zhang Shusheng still understands it relatively well. He knew that it was not that the army did not want to mobilize more troops, but that the army's family background was far less strong than in World War II, which had gone through frantic preparations. In the early 30s, the main divisions and regiments of the Yue Army were divided into two categories, the horse pulling division and the pack horse division, but on the basis of the 17 standing divisions, some first-class divisions and second-class divisions were added, and the strength of the entire army in 1933 was only more than 30 divisions.

On the Chinese battlefield, starting from the September 18 Incident, the losses in the two battlefields of Jinzhou and Beijing and Tianjin were particularly heavy, including the loss of soldiers from the bombed and sunken transport ships, and the total losses exceeded that of the Eighth Division, and they were basically the most elite divisions, with nearly 200,000 elite troops. On this basis, apart from the Taiwan army, the DPRK standing army, and the local troops, there will not be much more troops that the army can mobilize to China. Gathering nearly 200,000 elite troops to prepare for a crucial battle with China over the fate of the Northeast is already the last effort that Yue instinctively did. If this battle is successful, China will lose the strength and opportunity to recover the northeast in the short term, and if it fails, the Chinese army will be defeated to the end.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Shenyang was destined to stage a second battle between China and China, and it was also a hasty battle, and it was estimated that there would be 670,000 troops on both sides fighting in the Shenyang theater.

After the Battle of Shenyang entered the period of accumulation between the two sides, the Northeast was temporarily quiet, and while the army shrank from all parts of the Northeast to the major cities, it forced the arsenals in various parts of the Northeast to start work and use the factories on Chinese soil to produce murder weapons.

The Northeast was quiet for a while.

When there was no war in Northeast China, throughout August 1933, the whole country was red.

The 40,000 people of all nationalities, who have worked hard, have burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm for construction. They survived the oppression of the three mountains, partially repelled the invasion of the people, and then looked forward to the founding of New China. As long as the political axe is organized and guided, they can take the initiative to actively participate in the infrastructure construction undertakings in various parts of New China.

Nationwide, the most in full swing road transportation, water conservancy projects and other infrastructure construction and some resource-based factories, mines, oil and gas fields are preliminary.

In this way, the political axe not only provides a labor opportunity for the huge poor middle peasants who have gone bankrupt or are about to go bankrupt, but also lays the foundation for the large-scale economic construction that will be carried out in the future.

Factories are not built in a day, let alone thousands of factories can be built at the fingertips. The systematic industrial layout and regional economic planning need to be strictly implemented step by step from the central to the local level, so as to ensure that the economic construction of New China, which is full of momentum, will not go astray and will not change from large-scale construction to a great leap forward. Starting from the basic industrial chain, we can find a balance in terms of regional demand, regional advantages and resource supply. For example, in areas rich in mineral resources, in addition to good transportation, it is also necessary to build more chemical plants and mines and other ancillary industries, and to unify layout planning according to the characteristics of resource-intensive industries. The geographical location is extremely superior, such as the southeast coast and the Guangxi coast, will be intensively arranged some cutting-edge high-level production and processing enterprises and high-tech industries. In addition, the construction of some economic circles will also be put on the agenda, and the supporting education and scientific research industries for this purpose will also follow.

In the preliminary planning, the Bohai Rim Economic Circle with Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou as the core, the Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle (Hanjing and the other three places) with Hanhu-Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou as the core, the Pearl River Delta Economic Circle with Guangzhou, Fujian, Hong Kong and Macao as the core, and the Western Economic Circle with Chengdu-Yiyu as the core. In the near future, the four economic circles will play the role of four economic and industrial strongmen, provoking the economy of the entire new China.

The four major economic circles of Chengdu Yiyu will get a special focus on the construction, relying on the planned Myanmar sea mouth as the leader, the entire Chengdu Yiyu economic circle seems to be the most geographically located, but in fact has the entire southwest and northwest and even parts of central and northern China as the backing, and then in the future to win the Myanmar sea, as the main artery of the sea, the China-Myanmar railway will have no less than the southeast coastal advantages, especially in the European trade and other aspects play a more significant role.

When Zhang Shusheng made this decision, he took into account some of the 'lessons of the future' of later generations, and the economic planning was unreasonable, and he prematurely demanded that a very small number of regions lead the majority of backward areas to become rich. As a result, the areas that should be rich have become rich, and the areas that should have been driven to become rich have become provinces that export migrant workers, and they have not enjoyed much of the fruits of economic construction, but have suffered the cold eyes of some classes in the developed areas while making money with blood and sweat. As a result, in the case of occupying various advantages, there are also huge administrative advantages, and as a result, the gap between the east and the west is getting wider and wider. As the saying goes, the east is catching up with Europe and the United States, but the central and western regions are being overtaken by Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Of course, he also knows that as a backward economy, the advantages of transportation and geographical location are extremely huge in the early stage of economic development. However, New China is different, the demand for foreign trade is not particularly large for the time being, and the coastal layout has paid enough attention to the future development potential, and at the same time, some of them have learned from Soviet Russia, paid attention to taking the road of internal economic construction, and laid a solid foundation, so that they can get their hands on things in the era of high-speed global trade in the future.

Moreover, in Zhang Shusheng's plan, Myanmar will be the place that must be taken, and the short-term needs of New China are very simple, that is, a shortcut to the Indian Ocean, only this shortcut is opened, and after the comprehensive industrialization is basically completed, New China can carry out all-round confrontation with the economic giants of the United States and Europe. At that time, the eastern and western regions will have their own advantages, and under the condition that the industrial layout and the educational and scientific research layout are relatively balanced, the economic development momentum of the eastern and western regions will be able to integrate the economic development momentum of the whole of China, and only then can we forge ahead.

In addition to the fiery national infrastructure construction and the great victory in Jinzhou, the great march that is still going on in New China is left in the western two directions.

Not to mention the time spent in Shaanxi, Gansu alone is a 1,800-kilometer-long east-west corridor, and along the way, it is necessary to deter and confiscate some local illegal ethnic armed forces, and the speed of the march can be imagined.

In this way, the troops entering Tibet have attracted the general attention of the Chinese people, and a private newspaper in the southwest, "Huaxia Express," which is known for adhering to the position of the Han nation, has devoted a very large headline to the current march into Tibetan Province: "The Heavenly Army Enters Tibet

The march route of the troops into Tibet was along the northern route of the Sichuan-Tibet Line of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, and although this road was equally difficult and dangerous, it was the best way to enter Tibet from Sichuan. Due to the abundant harvest in the Sichuan tea-producing areas in Ya'an and other places, since the establishment of the tea system in the Song Dynasty, merchants have used small pack horses to carry tea, cloth, salt and ceramic utensils along the roads carved out of mountain streams or cliffs, and have gone in and out of Tibet from generation to generation, carrying goods in exchange for horses and other goods that are in great demand in the hilly areas of the southwest. This route is known as the Sichuan-Tibet 'Great Road'. Through Ya'an, Yingjing, Hanyuan, Luding, Kangding, and then out of the customs through Daofu, Luhuo, Ganzi, Dege, cross the Jinsha River into Tibetan Province.

Starting from Ya'an, according to the established route, Zhuge Shengbu will march along Ya'an-Kangding-Qamdo-Nyingchi-Lhasa.

Due to the rainy days of several days on the way, the speed of the troops' march was greatly affected, and it was almost over in early August, and they only reached the Tibetan area in northern Sichuan, and had not yet entered the real Tibetan province.

At this time, it was already evening, but the black mountainside was lit up with a long dragon with no end in sight, and the Tibetans on the hill in the distance saw it, and were frightened that it was a monster who came out to find food, and hid back to their homes, closing the door to prevent the children from looking curiously.

This long dragon was the army marching into Tibet in the evening.

In between the march of the troops, Zhuge Sheng and Tie Sangan, with the guards of the military headquarters, stopped in a stone cave carved out of a mountain cliff. The guards boiled water to make tea, Zhuge Sheng watched the march outside the cave, and Tie Sanqian chatted with a few Tibetan guides.

The previous road was slightly better, but as soon as it crossed the boundary of Litang, the terrain became extremely difficult to walk, just like the road under the feet now, it was simply a road cut out from the halfway waist of the cliff, and the two soldiers passed side by side It was a little crowded, and the mules and horses who were used to the mountain road had to be careful of stumbling.

Zhuge Sheng looked at the troops who kept passing outside the cave, and the secret road of Sichuan-Tibet Road is much more difficult than the Shu Road, if the Shu Road is as difficult as the sky, this ancient tea horse road is as difficult as coming down from the sky.

"Report to the commander, the water is boiling."

Hearing the guard's shout, Zhuge Sheng patted the dust on his body and turned around, took the jar of Pu'er tea from the guard's hand, and then made a few small cups of tea by himself, personally picked up a cup, and sent it to the eldest old man among several Tibetan guides.

"Old man Danba, this journey is really difficult for you, you have worked hard, please drink tea. This is the authentic Pu'er tea I brought from Yunnan, hehe. ”

The old man Danba is a Tibetan celebrity in Litang, although the whole Litang county is not as big as some towns in Sichuan, but there are a lot of Tibetans, this old man Danba is used to walking the ancient tea horse road in his early years, he is well-informed, can speak Chinese, and is also very open-minded, although he is almost 60 years old, but he is still in business two years ago, and he has just left his burden and become the head of a local Tibetan village. After the army passed through Litang County, cleaned up two Tibetan Bayi who were local oppressors of Tibetans, rescued the imprisoned civilians, and divided the fields, the old man Danba realized that the new policy axe that had been rumored before was indeed right, making decisions for the people, not discriminating against or suppressing ethnic minorities, and respecting the customs and habits of ethnic minorities.

The old man was accustomed to Sichuan and Tibet, and knew that this was a heavenly army that could make a difference and could bring a truly happy life to the Han and Tibetans, so he took the initiative to ask Ying and took the team of merchants in the village to be a guide. They all know some Chinese, can communicate basically, and are familiar with the road, and can help the army eliminate many troubles in communicating with Tibetans. In comparison, it is much stronger than the few Tibetan guides invited by the army before.

However, the old man is an ordinary person after all, and after seeing that he was invincible in peace, and the old man Bayi, who tried to resist the heavenly army with a rifle, was resolutely defeated by the general and his troops without much effort, he developed a kind of humility. Not to mention that when he saw that the entire army entering Tibet was strong and mighty, he was more careful in his heart, and showed the troops the way with the mentality of serving the heavenly army.

Unlike the two Bayi masters, he knew that such a heavenly army was not something that those ambitious people could fight against, but that a strong and well-disciplined army could bring true peaceful coexistence to the Han and Tibetans.

Seeing Zhuge Sheng, the general who entered Tibet, personally pouring tea for himself, the old man Danba's waist was about to bend to the end, along with the two Tibetans around him.

Zhuge Sheng waved his hand and personally helped the old man Danba to sit back on the folding stool, "Old man, our people's army is not the army of any clan, we are the army of the entire Huaxia and the entire Han nation, so you don't have to be afraid, the people's army is naturally the master of the people, how can it be like those old social armies, oppressing the people." ”

"General Zhuge has the legacy of his predecessors, he is a world-famous general, a world-famous general." Although the old man Danba felt very comfortable and admired Zhuge Sheng's words, he was still cautious in his words. "This iron pot is very easy to use, the boiling water is fast, and it is hot enough, good tea, good tea."

The old man Danba took a sip of tea lightly and smelled the fragrance of Pu'er tea, although he had transported this tea many times, but he had never drunk it once, this was the first time. And the good iron pot he refers to is a pressure cooker that burns gasoline.

Zhuge Sheng smiled but did not say a word, raised his glass to toast the tea, and drank it himself.

Along the way, the troops entering Tibet did abide by discipline and did not commit any offense against the Tibetan people, and they would try their best to explain some misunderstandings as clearly as they could. Of course, this does not mean that the army will be weak and powerless, on the contrary, when there is a phenomenon of resistance or obstruction, Zhuge Sheng will order a direct secret annihilation. Of course, it is also necessary to crack down on local tyrants and divide land and property, and liberate serfs. Although Litang is located in Sichuan, it is close to Tibetan areas and is mainly home to Tibetans, and has also been influenced by many Tibetan serfdoms.

In order to encompass these Tibetans, who had a greater effect on the people's army, Zhuge Sheng specially ordered to bring some goods that were very practical for the Tibetans, and even modern goods from the southwest, such as relatively cheap pressure cookers, matches, etc. The old man Danba's stockade got several good pots, including pressure cookers and aluminum pots.

"Don't worry, general, after this pick, there is a large open mountain, which is very suitable for the heavenly army to spend the night." The old man Danba was a little nervous, although he had seen Zhuge Sheng a few times before, but he was not used to it until now.

"I finally crossed this mountain without danger, thanks to the old man, for your guidance." The original ancient tea horse road was on the other side of the mountain, and it was already broken and impassable. Speaking of which, the closer you get to Tibet, the more difficult the march becomes, and from Litang onwards, the vanguard engineering units are busy opening mountain roads for troops to pass through.

"Old man, how much do you know about Batang?"

Remembering that there were many questions about Batang in the intelligence, Zhuge Sheng couldn't help asking.

Batang is not as good as Litang, this is the junction of Sichuan and Tibet, not in Tibet but better than Tibet, is the hardest hit place for the activities of many illegal elements, they will use Batang as a gateway into Tibetan Province, under the banner of some unsightly people, always guard against and suppress the Han people.

"Batang, the general must be more careful."

The old man Danba was silent for a long time, and finally said this.

Zhuge Sheng nodded, he could also foresee the situation in Batang, after all, it was mentioned in the intelligence, the news of the army's entry into Tibet still leaked, after all, the army of tens of thousands of people headed towards Tibetan Province, whether it was some Tibetans with ulterior motives or the British, they would not line up to welcome them on the Sichuan-Tibet border, let alone take the initiative to offer Hada.

While subconsciously drinking Pu'er tea, I thought about countermeasures.

"What the old man said is that the situation in Batang may be a little complicated."

When the old man Danba heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he saw that the general also knew some information. As a person who has traveled to and from Sichuan and Tibet many times, he naturally knows that some Tibetan nobles and British people are between the Tibetan and Han peoples. Judging from his position as a merchant for many years, any opposition between the two clans is only beneficial to those nobles and harmful to the common people. He couldn't help but say worriedly, "The general must be more careful, and he can't let some people with ulterior motives hurt the Heavenly Army." ”

"The kindness of the old man Danba, Zhuge understands, don't worry, whether it is the British or some people, they will not be able to offend the majesty of the Heavenly Army." Zhuge Sheng secretly said in his heart, how could he be worried that the British or Tibetans would endanger the army, but he was thinking about how to kill and deter in case of an emergency.

As for the honest old man Danba, although he knows that tens of thousands of troops, the heavenly army where everyone has a gun is difficult to violate, and he is also in awe of the heavenly army in his heart, but he can't know how severely those petty people will be punished when they get angry in the face of any rebellion or chaos.

(To be continued)